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About Syngas Biofuels Energy, Inc. Syngas Biofuels Energy, Inc. exceptional team is precisely selected for the tasks set. Seasoned executives with the experts in successful metabolic engineering of low GC% content anaerobic microorganisms keep moving the mountain of making our gasoline market totally independent on the imported oil in a few years from now. As the result, our economy will thrive to benefit us and our children. Syngas Biofuels Energy, Inc. has a set of pending patents protecting its IP in the area of syngas bioconversion to biofuels and chemicals using genetically engineered microbial catalysts. Such patents include but are not limited to microbiology, physiology, chemical/physical mutagenesis, development of targeted molecular biology tools, metabolic engineering, validation of recombinants, and our unique syngas fermenting bioreactor design. Team of Syngas Biofuels Energy, Inc. The management team has total more than 50 years of experience in starting up and running new businesses with staff varying from two to several hundred employees in the area of biofuels, petroleum engineering industry, project management, process and equipment design, development and commercialization including bioreactors design and manufacture at the level from the lab bench to commercial scale. Vel Berzin is the CEO, Director, President of Baker-Hughes Russia (1988-2003) where he has built the team of eight hundred employees. Mr. Berzin is the founder and Director of other companies in the field of biofuels and engineering services, expert in team-building / managing, project management / process and equipment design and development with 30+ years of experience. Mr. Berzin is SBE, Inc. Guru in Engineering and Bioreactor design. Michael Tyurin is the Senior Technical Advisor/Consultant, veteran of DOE Small Business Initiative with grants from DOE in 2003-2004 to Advanced Bioconversion Technologies, LLC (presently Mascoma Corporation), has 25+ years of postdoctoral experience in industrial setting as related to microbial biocatalyst strain engineering. Mr. Tyurin is an expert in syngas fermenting bacteria. Top scientists and scientific managers - anaerobic microbiology/molecular biology Gurus possess total more 50 years of expertise in strain development and metabolic engineering for processes utilizing variety of carbon sources not limited to gaseous carbonaceous substrates towards production of valuable chemicals. The team uses services of experts in accounting, patenting and corporate law. Advisory Board of Syngas Biofuels Energy, Inc. Our Advisory Board includes prominent nationwide and internationally recognized
Syngas Biofuels Energy, Inc. is exceptionally well positioned in the market of biofuel technologies There are several groups of biofuel companies and none of them offer 97% raw material carbon recovery as a single biofuel product with zero carbon emissions:
The Challenges Biofuel Companies - Potential Competitors Face
Current Trends on the Market of Fuel Gasoline Extenders Experts and market analysts agree that fuel gas extender ethanol has started “cooling down” (JUICE: Alternate Fuels World). Corn-to-ethanol process has proven itself as an expensive and thus, non-competitive process to gasoline manufacture. Ethanol from biomass is still more expensive than gasoline. There is no reliable economics providing for that biomass-to-ethanol or butanol would be less costly than known sugars-to-ethanol or butanol, or even profitable at all. There are estimates of biomass cost as a fuel at about $6.00 per 1 MM BTU. Ethanol is not the best choice as the gas extender since it is explosive and has fuel-to-air ratio higher than that of average gasoline. Thus ethanol-gasoline blends are not suited for high-performance engines. Also, wide use of gas extender ethanol raised environmental concerns in CA where massive use of ethanol blends already caused increase of ozone levels and is associated with acetaldehyde emissions by engines using such blends due to incomplete combustion process. Ethanol, a two-carbon alcohol with energy content of ~71 k BTU/gallon, is corrosive due to its residual water content of ~4%. Ethanol distillation from “beer” liquid to ~96%, and then dehydration using molecular sieve to ~99.5%, both are high energy consuming steps. Dehydrated ethanol tends to re-capture water from the atmosphere during storage, transportation and blending. The ethanol economics had already been reviewed in regards to how much the US taxpayers subsidized ethanol fuel business. Butanol, a four-carbon alcohol with energy content of 112 k BTU/gallon, is almost perfect as a fuel gas extender. It is not explosive, and its fuel-to-gas ratio is very close to that of average gasoline. These properties make butanol a valuable component of fuel blends for high-performance engines. Butanol is not corrosive. Its boiling point at normal pressure of 117 o C is above water boiling point. Therefore butanol is easy to concentrate from water solutions by water evaporation instead of distillation. Butanol self-separates from water at concentrations above 10%. The only drawback of butanol is its somewhat high viscosity. Butanol viscosity is ~ 10 times higher than that of average gasoline, thus pure butanol will form gels in fuel lines at low temperatures. Gasoline blends with up to 60% butanol work perfectly even at cold temperatures. Gasoline burning provides energy output up to ~ 115k BTU /gallon. Venture capitalists look more often towards butanol manufacturing processes to establish a new market for fuel gas extender butanol. In particular, Virgin Fuels are not interested in backing numerous ethanol developers and producers, concentrating on support of development processes for fuel gas extender butanol. Indeed, instead of just 10% market penetration with fuel gas extender ethanol it is possible to penetrate $multi-billion (daily) gasoline market with butanol by 60%. Contact Information
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